Midvash

קוֹלqôwl

קוֺל: sound, voice

Pronunciation: kole · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6963

Meanings

1. sound, especially

a. of human voice (Joshua 6:10; 2 Kings 7:10; Genesis 27:22)

b. of ׳ י (Genesis 3:8; Genesis 3:10; Isaiah 6:8)

c. of seraph (Isaiah 6:4)

d. of angel (Daniel 8:16; Daniel 10:6; Daniel 10:9)

e. of animals (1 Samuel 15:14; Jeremiah 9:9; Jeremiah 8:16)

f. exclamation, at beginning of clause (Genesis 4:10; Isaiah 13:4; Isaiah 40:3)

2. sound

a. of instrument (Exodus 9:16; Exodus 20:18; Exodus 20:15)

thunder-clap or peal (1 Samuel 12:17; Amos 1:2; Isaiah 30:30)

c. קוֺל רַגְלֶיהָ (1 Kings 14:6; 2 Kings 6:32; Genesis 3:8)

d. stamping of hoofs (Jeremiah 47:3; Ezekiel 26:10; 1 Kings 1:41)

e. of chariots (Nahum 3:2; Joel 2:5; Ezekiel 3:13)

f. of sea, and great waters (Habakkuk 3:10; Ezekiel 1:24; Ezekiel 43:2)

g. earthquake (Ezekiel 37:7)

h. a fall (Jeremiah 49:21; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 31:16)

i. of a multitude (1 Samuel 4:14; Isaiah 13:4; Ezekiel 23:42)

j. din of war (Exodus 32:17; Jeremiah 50:22; Jeremiah 50:46)

k. of wings (Ezekiel 1:24; Ezekiel 3:13; Ezekiel 10:5)

l. millstones, flame (Joel 2:5; Ecclesiastes 7:6; Leviticus 26:36)

3. of articulate speech, thing said

a. often of human advice, command, entreaty, of a report, of a proclamation, אָלָה ׳ ק (Genesis 3:17; Genesis 4:23; Exodus 3:18)

b. often (especially Deuteronomy, Jeremiah) of words of ׳ י (Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:5; Exodus 5:2)

קֹל: lightness, frivolity (Jeremiah 3:9)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 506 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 3:8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.
  • Genesis 3:10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
  • Genesis 3:17 And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
  • Genesis 4:10 But the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!
  • Genesis 4:23 One day Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; listen to me, you wives of Lamech. I have killed a man who attacked me, a young man who wounded me.
  • Genesis 16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).